It's almost like a vaudeville routine as the rats leave the sinking S.S. Bush and write their memoirs about how they disagreed with everything they did while on board on the way to the lifeboat.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 4:43:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/29093/nasa-was-muzzled-on-climate-change.html?refid=rss_all_defaultPolitical appointees at NASA withheld scientific results on global warming, NASA's inspector general has determined after an internal probe. Investigators found that the public affairs office, run by Bush appointees, suffered from political spinning that was "inconsistent" with the agency's responsibility to pass full information on to the public, the New York Times reports.http://www.newser.com/story/29093/nasa-was-muzzled-on-climate-change.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 03 Jun 2008 9:59:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/29020/ex-us-commander-in-iraq-bashes-bush-in-memoir.html?refid=rss_all_defaultRetired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led US forces in Iraq for a year after Saddam’s ouster, says George W. Bush “led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions” in a memoir the Washington Post deems “lost in the media furor” over Scott McClellan's. Sanchez recounts a presidential video-conference pep talk in 2004: “Kick ass! If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them!http://www.newser.com/story/29020/ex-us-commander-in-iraq-bashes-bush-in-memoir.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 02 Jun 2008 13:26:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28943/mcclellan-blasts-bush-for-not-firing-rove.html?refid=rss_all_defaultPresident Bush should have fired aide Karl Rove over the Plamegate affair, Scott McClellan said today. Publicizing his Washington tell-all book, McClellan also blasted Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's ex-chief of staff, for denying they had leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's name, the AP reports. "We had higher standards at the White House."http://www.newser.com/story/28943/mcclellan-blasts-bush-for-not-firing-rove.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 02 Jun 2008 13:26:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28819/shoot-at-the-facts-not-at-the-messenger.html?refid=rss_all_defaultScott McClellan isn't someone Peggy Noonan found herself admiring, she writes in the Wall Street Journal , but she did end up “believing him" after finishing his memoir. He didn’t pen his story to make friends or salvage his image, but rather to set the record straight as he saw it. And first-person accounts are exactly what’s needed: “Feed history,” Noonan demands.http://www.newser.com/story/28819/shoot-at-the-facts-not-at-the-messenger.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 02 Jun 2008 13:26:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28821/bush-mob-sets-its-sights-on-mcclellan.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Bush administration's reaction to Scott McClellan's new book should look familiar to anyone with HBO, with one important difference, writes Mike Lupica in the Daily News. "it has become clear by now that even the hoods from The Sopranos would be out of their weight class with George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove."http://www.newser.com/story/28821/bush-mob-sets-its-sights-on-mcclellan.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 02 Jun 2008 13:26:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28815/frankenstein-betrays-his-master.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIn Scott McClellan, the White House built a Frankenstein monster to regurgitate its “talking points, monotonously if not mindlessly, no matter what argument or fact stood in the way,” Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post . Well now the monster is back, with “famous fealty to his message…as stubborn as ever”—but now he’s programmed for Bush-bashing, not Bush-boosting.http://www.newser.com/story/28815/frankenstein-betrays-his-master.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 02 Jun 2008 13:26:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28830/furious-dole-calls-mcclellan-miserable-creature.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBush turncoat Scott McClellan may have taken his hardest hit yesterday in a personal message from Bob Dole, who called the ex-press secretary a “miserable creature.” “Your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique,” the 1996 Republican presidential nominee wrote in an email leaked to Politico.http://www.newser.com/story/28830/furious-dole-calls-mcclellan-miserable-creature.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 02 Jun 2008 13:26:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28715/cnn-reporter-corp-execs-pushed-media-to-play-up-war.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCNN reporter Jessica Yellin charged on-air last night that “the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives” to present the Iraq war consistently “with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings.” Responding to Scott McClellan’s complaint that reporters were too “deferential,” Yellin—who was at ABC in the war run-up—told Anderson Cooper her own pieces were edited to elevate the positive and downplay the critical.http://www.newser.com/story/28715/cnn-reporter-corp-execs-pushed-media-to-play-up-war.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 02 Jun 2008 13:26:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28719/mcclellan-i-believed-bush.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAffection and loyalty blinded Scott McClellan in the run-up to the Iraq war, but now the former press secretary has found a higher allegiance—“a loyalty to the truth.” McClellan, whose book is causing a media storm for alleging President Bush ran a “propaganda” campaign about the war, defended his work this morning on NBC's Today .http://www.newser.com/story/28719/mcclellan-i-believed-bush.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 02 Jun 2008 13:26:51 CDT